South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
God’s word tells us to be clothed with humility, for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” (1 Peter 5:5) and, “For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). Yet, I often feel there is an element of […]
Members of the Inter-Church Council (ICC), representing three mainstream Afrikaans churches, held a historic first dialogue meeting with leaders of the African National Congress at the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg on Tuesday (August 4). Previously the church leaders withdrew from an invitation to meet the ANC on June 9 […]
Christian and corporate leaders in South Africa and neighbouring countries are getting behind the vision for a National Day of Repentance (NDR) in Bloemfontein on September 13, says NDR Communications Manager Rebecca Cantor. “We stand amazed at the doors that the Lord has opened in the past few days, having […]
Darryl Reid remembers a Friday night meeting at his local church (Breakthru Life Church, Johannesburg) about six years ago when a member of a visiting Bethel Church team prophesied that God was going to use him in filmmaking. “My thoughts were, ‘how far off the mark is this guy..?’ writes […]
For the first time East London will be hosting an End-Time Handmaidens and Servants Convention which will include a morning with special focus on Israel. The conference, entitled Open Heaven, will be attended by the president of ETH&S, Sharon Buss and her husband, vice-president, Philip Buss, who took office in […]
Originally posted in Breaking Israel News While the White House and Congress prepare for a final showdown over the controversial Iran nuclear deal, three American prisoners and one missing American in Iran are awaiting their own fate. One of the prisoners is Pastor Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American Christian pastor who has […]
A clear purpose seems to be one of the main reasons that keeps multi-award winning Christian pop rock group, Newsboys, going, in addition to being slightly unconventional. More than 20 years down the line, the group is still churning our hits like, ‘God’s Not Dead’, which was first released in […]
By Brian Nixon — Originally published by Assist News Service Recent news sources reported that soccer superstar and Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo gave a Greek island to his agent, Jorge Mendes, as a wedding gift[1]. A gift worthy of the Greek gods, eh? For many there is a direct […]
Originally posted in Christianity Today Several churches held a prayer service outside a government office yesterday, holding up crosses and banners that read, “Can’t remove the cross in our hearts,” reports the Union of Catholic Asian News. The cross dispute is “destined to become one of the ‘pain points’ in […]
Originally posted in Testimony 1 Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) on Saturday announced that it is giving financial rewards of N91 million (R5.8 million) to its members who graduated with first class from different universities across the country. General Overseer of MFM, Daniel Olukoya, made the announcement […]